Ebook: System Development: A Strategic Framework

System Development: A Strategic Framework looks at one of the key issues in the design and development of IT systems: the fact that the bulk of system development projects undertaken will fail to meet originally defined objectives. Using a number of case studies, it analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides the reader with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, the book then generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines which will substantially reduce the impact and probability of financial and performance disasters in future projects.
Accessible to the professional and non-technical reader, this book will prove invaluable to project managers, development managers, IT controllers, project engineers, and systems analysts as well as MSc and MBA students studying computer system development.

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System Development: A Strategic Framework looks at one of the key issues in the design and development of IT systems: the fact that the bulk of system development projects undertaken will fail to meet originally defined objectives. Using a number of case studies, it analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides the reader with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, the book then generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines which will substantially reduce the impact and probability of financial and performance disasters in future projects.
Accessible to the professional and non-technical reader, this book will prove invaluable to project managers, development managers, IT controllers, project engineers, and systems analysts as well as MSc and MBA students studying computer system development.

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System Development: A Strategic Framework looks at one of the key issues in the design and development of IT systems: the fact that the bulk of system development projects undertaken will fail to meet originally defined objectives. Using a number of case studies, it analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides the reader with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, the book then generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines which will substantially reduce the impact and probability of financial and performance disasters in future projects.
Accessible to the professional and non-technical reader, this book will prove invaluable to project managers, development managers, IT controllers, project engineers, and systems analysts as well as MSc and MBA students studying computer system development.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-14
Formulating the problem....Pages 15-28
Patterns of development....Pages 29-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Analysis....Pages 53-67
Planning....Pages 69-82
Forecasting....Pages 83-99
Partnership....Pages 101-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Taking stock....Pages 125-134
The new approach — things....Pages 135-148
The new approach — people....Pages 149-170
The new approach — management....Pages 171-193
Wrap-up....Pages 195-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-245

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System Development: A Strategic Framework looks at one of the key issues in the design and development of IT systems: the fact that the bulk of system development projects undertaken will fail to meet originally defined objectives. Using a number of case studies, it analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides the reader with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, the book then generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines which will substantially reduce the impact and probability of financial and performance disasters in future projects.
Accessible to the professional and non-technical reader, this book will prove invaluable to project managers, development managers, IT controllers, project engineers, and systems analysts as well as MSc and MBA students studying computer system development.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-14
Formulating the problem....Pages 15-28
Patterns of development....Pages 29-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Analysis....Pages 53-67
Planning....Pages 69-82
Forecasting....Pages 83-99
Partnership....Pages 101-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Taking stock....Pages 125-134
The new approach — things....Pages 135-148
The new approach — people....Pages 149-170
The new approach — management....Pages 171-193
Wrap-up....Pages 195-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-245
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